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Friday, Jan. 2, 2026
The Daily Pennsylvanian

Penn grad student scans mummies

In an effort to learn more about human sacrificies in ancient Mesopotamia, Anthropology graduate student Aubrey Baadsgaard and other Penn scholars drove female human remains from the Penn Museum of Archaelogy and Anthopology to HUP yesterday to perform CAT scans, according to an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

The CAT scan is the first of several tests to find out who the young woman was, how she died, and why.